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Coronation Street Cast & Crew Worried That "The Street" Is Becoming "Too Gay"

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Coronation Street, Britans longest running  soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on Salford has become famous for its inclusion of LGBT characters.  But some cast members are beginning to get bent over the fact that soon there will  a THIRD homosexual couple on the Street. Currently Sean Tully and Marcus Dent are in a big storyline – as well as the return of Todd Grimshaw and boyfriend Jools. The Street is also home to lesbians Sophie Webster and Sian Powers and a transexual, Hayley Cropper

Jean Alexander who has played Hilda Ogden for 23 years claims Corrie is becoming too far fetched: “Every community has people who are gay and they are very nice people but three couples seems excessive.”

And Nick Cochrane who played Andy McDonald has this to say:

I’m not sure these storylines are realistic. I’ve got plenty of gay friends but they don’t all live in a street full of gay people.  How many streets in Britain would have schoolgirl lesbians, gay married couples, a transexual and children to gay couples? It is a little bit far-fetched.

Fans love Corrie for its traditional values. I don’t think it’s the right platform to highlight so many gay issues all at the same time

Ben Summerskill, chief executive of gay rights charity Stonewall

“Corrie picked up Stonewall’s Broadcast of the Year trophy because it’s streets ahead with its gay characters, About six per cent of the population is gay – and more in and around cities. So of 66 Corrie characters it’s not in the least inconceivable that more than four might be gay.”

Ratings have been holding steady sinceex-Doctor Who producer Phil Collinson (who is also gay) took the job last year at about 8 Million viers  But one Corrie insider said: “It’s not a happy place to be at the moment – and there is growing unrest that the show is losing its way,”

via: newsoftheworld.co.uk

Video – Groundbreaking LGBT Inclusive Soap Operas All My Children and One Life To Live CANCELLED

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All My Children” and “One Life to Live” will air their final episodes in September 2011 and January 2012,  leaving only “General Hospital” to be ABC’s lone surviving soap opera.

“All My Children” made history by airing daytime TV’s first same-sex kiss between two women as well as its first lesbian wedding and the first coming-out story for a transgender character and One Live to Live”  made national headlines when it introduced a gay teen character (played by Ryan Phillippe) and was later honored by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) for it’s Kyle/Fish gay romance storyline, which OLTL fumbled with in the end and wrote both characters off abruptly because they didn’t know what to do with them after they hooked up.

Daytime Soap "The Young and the Restless" To Begin Gay Storyline On August 26th As Out Actor Thom Bierdz Returns To The Show

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Well “One Life To Live” may have punked out on it’s gay storyline but the “Young and the Restless” seem more than wiling to pick up the “gay baton”. 

Openly gay actor Thom Bientz started shooting his scenes and the new gay storyline will begin on August 26th, according to to CBS Soaps in Depth.

48 year old Bierdz, who is openly gay, and STILL HOTTER THAN HELL, plays Phillip Chancellor III, a closeted gay man who faked his death to live his life openly elsewhere. The character returned last summer and came out to the family he left behind, including his son Phillip Chancellor IV, played by John Driscoll.

Last year’s coming out storyline was interesting because it reversed the dynamics of the story. “Most of the time, it’s the son coming out to the father and in this case, it was the father coming out to the son,” Driscoll said.

Let’s hope that The Young and the Restless handels the gay storyline in a much more mature way than “One Life To Live” did.